22 Facts About Natasha Devon

Natasha Jade Devon was born on 12 March 1981 and is a writer, campaigner and broadcaster.

Natasha Devon has visited schools and colleges in the United Kingdom and around the world, including in Bangkok, The Hague, Shanghai, Kathmandu, Montreux and Taipei, delivering classes and conducting research with teenagers, teachers and parents on mental health, body image and social equality.

Natasha Devon has taken part in campus wellbeing programmes in British universities including Aberystwyth University and City, University of London, and was a trustee for the student mental health charity Student Minds between 2019 and 2023, although continues to support the charity in an advisory capacity.

Natasha Devon began writing a weekly column for the Times Educational Supplement in 2015, but resigned from the newspaper in May 2019 in "solidarity with the trans community" after it published an article recommending a resource to teachers that she described as "transphobic".

Natasha Devon currently has a monthly column in Teach Secondary Magazine.

Natasha Devon is a patron of No Panic, a charity which gives support to people living with anxiety and an ambassador for Glitch, a charity that campaigns for online safety of marginalised groups.

Natasha Devon continues to give regular evidence to the Health and Education Select Committees and is involved in political campaigning.

Natasha Devon recovered from bulimia in 2006 and later co-founded the charity Body Gossip with her former school friend Ruth Rogers.

In 2010, Natasha Devon wrote an article about her experience of bulimia in the UK edition of Cosmopolitan magazine.

In May 2018 Natasha Devon launched Where's Your Head At with Mental Health First Aid England and Bauer Media.

Shortly afterwards, Natasha Devon wrote in The Daily Telegraph of her initial caution in accepting the role, adding:.

However, in May 2016 it was announced that Natasha Devon's role was to be axed.

Natasha Devon was told that her position was discontinued for organisational purposes, to make way for a new interdepartmental role that would be salaried.

Natasha Devon emphasised that while she had carried out her role unpaid to maintain her independence of the government, the new appointee would be salaried and could "be paid effectively to toe the party line".

In September 2016, Natasha Devon obtained internal DfE emails using a Freedom of Information request.

In 2012, Natasha Devon was one of the mentors on the Channel 4 TV series Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth.

Natasha Devon has appeared on the BBC, Sky News and ITV as an expert on body image, and on the BBC's Newsnight programme.

On 9 September 2020, LBC announced that Natasha Devon would be hosting a phone-in show Saturdays at 7pm.

Natasha Devon has written regular columns for publications including Cosmopolitan and TES,.

Natasha Devon has been published in the Huffington Post, The Independent, The Guardian, and Stylist Magazine.

Natasha Devon was appointed MBE in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "services to young people".

In 2016, Natasha Devon was made a Fellow at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.